was i just being a rude immature patient?

Yesterday i went into l&d because i had been cramping for over 12 hours on and off which my doctor said, over two hours go in.

I've had this uti, been prescribed macrobid 3 times, and another medication once, had meds through my iv as well as a during shot of antibiotics another time, yet as of yesterday it is still here.

I was contracting according to the monitor, and i told them I'm not dehydrated because i drink around 10 bottles of water along with juicez and other things.

Surely enough they gave me fluids, along with "you have a uti, so were giving you prescription macrobid, make sure you drink a lot"

After being there for 4 hours just to hear that again, i think i kind of snapped.
I told the nurse, you can give it to me but I'm not taking it. And when he asked why, i explained i had been given it 3 times and every time i come back my uti is still here. He tried explaining that utis are common in pregnancy and common to come back and i was like NO it had not went away, and all you keep doing is giving me macrobid that does not work, it never makes it go away, i take this medicine for no reason, justto be back here in a week with the same pains, and no one thinks it could be another underlying problem.

All he said was "well okay, ill write you up a prescription for macrobid and make sure to keep you're next appt." And walks out.

I wanted to scream.

On another note, i had a cervical check yesterday and last night i had a brown discharge and today a very small two or three clots of blood, is that normal?

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Sorry you're not being heard. I know how frustrating that is first hand and it sucks.

Antibiotics aren't a one size fits all thing and it drives me crazy when drs act like they are. Maybe you could call today and ask to try a different antibiotic. I wish I could remember the name of the one I took. It wasn't macrobid. I want to say it started with a "k". Hopefully someone else can chime in with what they've taken.

As for the spotting, totally normal after a cervical check so I wouldn't worry there.

I am so sorry! I don't think you were rude at all. THEY have your medical records. Something isn't working right. You have to advocate for yourself. Every time I go to my dr., the nurse confirms of my Sulfa allergy. I developed GD and I knew at my next appt. we were going to discuss meds. I researched them. There is Sulfa in them. Sure enough, she said she was putting me on the meds. I had to tell her that I thought there was Sulpha in them and I was allergic. She had to go research it. Came back in and said there was Sulpha so I would have to start Insulin. Ugh!

Yes, UTI's can reoccur, but if its continuous and the same med is not helping, they need to do some of their own research! Is there another hospital you can go to? Hang in there Hun and don't worry about appearing "rude". You have to look out for you and your LO on the way.

I'm with you op. I've kept them for months and its beginning to worry me that something else is wrong with my kidneys or something. It's not just painful, but it's inconvenient to take meds constantly only to feel like crap when you stop them!

Thank you.
It just is frustrating because its like i know my body, i know I'm silk having pain that hasn't seemed to ever stop, and they sent me home feeling even worse than when i went in, and in more pain than when i went in.
This guy couldn't even do my cervical check properly, where someone else had to come in and double check for him, but yet he's going to tellme about what medicine i need.

Exactly, I'm like have you thought maybe there is something wrong with my kidneys or bladder that you're over looking? I mean i do everything they tell me yet every time i go in i get the " you know you have to finish ALL of your medicine for it to work, and you have to drink enough liquids"

Its like don't talk to me like in a child, do you think i want to be in this hospital like this every two weeks.

I'm going to talk to my actual doctor on Friday and see what he says. Im supposed to get a csection first week of feb, so hopefully that happens and i can take something else that will actually help or find a doctor that will look into my other organs

Constant/recurring UTIs are common in pregnancy. I def agree you should ask about trying a different med by mouth, but sounds like they have tried that by giving you IV antibiotics as well as a shot of antibiotics. Getting upset with your nurse usually doesn't get you anywhere since she is just following orders from your dr or the on call dr. I would follow up with your doctor (if that wasn't who you saw in L&D) and make sure he/she is aware that you have tried the macrobid several times with no success. Sometimes it takes delivery and getting that pressure off of your bladder to clear the UTI up for good. Hope you get some relief soon.

Yea my doctor told me that if you take the same antibiotic frequently it basically just doesn't work anymore... def ask for a different kind of antibiotic. And IDK how you sleep but try sleeping without underwear. I used to get UTIs all the time and took that advice from my doctor. Havent had one since.

with my son i had many uti's but when they gave me medication for the first one i started cramping and had bleeding i know it was the medication because as soon as i stopped taking it the cramping and spotting went away. the doctor said if you think the meds caused it stop taking it. then i kept having bleeding during pregnancy and was out in bed rest until i was 5 months along. still couldn't do crap once they let me get up but it was better then having to be in bed. any way once they new i wasn't going to take the atibiotics because they would just make me feel so sick they told me to drink cranberry juice the all natural one. they sell it at the vitamin stores. it's expensive but it worked. also try not to have so much sugar remember it is even insome vegetables